FANGORIA and INERTIA Entertainment want to send three lucky Italian horror fanatics and their pals to see legendary progressive rock band GOBLIN’s Toronto stop on their triumphant North American tour on Friday, October 11th at The Opera House. And one lucky fan and a friend will get the chance to duck backstage and meet the band for the uberfan meet and greet!

It’s understandable if, as a viewer, you initially experience difficulty being eloquent when it comes to navigating and expressing thoughts on YOU’RE NEXT. If so, it’s because the literal buzzing you’re feeling upon its end leaves you with essentially one word: great.

The Russian oil tanker previously toured by star Manuela Velasco is again the site of a brief dispatch from the set of [REC] 4: APOCALYPSE. This time, director Jaume Balagueró updates on the progress of the supposedly final picture in the series, revealing what fans can expect from his vision and even a second of footage.

As we edge up to H.P. Lovecraft’s 123rd birthday this Tuesday August 20th, FANGO’s Trevor Parker visits five key Toronto-area locations from John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, and gives us both new photos by David Goodfellow, and a google map so that you can visit the locations yourself!

After a smash run earlier this year, Nictophobia Films’ outrageously amusing, campy stage remounting of the seminal 1968 masterpiece of zombie horror, returns to the Toronto stage at Theatre Passe Murraille. GEORGE A. ROMERO’S NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE, directed by EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL’s Christopher Bond and sponsored in part by FANGORIA, is co-produced by Romero and his NOTLD cohorts John Russo and Russ Streiner and is designed and lit in shuddery, shadowy black and white. Act one faithfully reproduces every beat of the original classic, while act two flies bloodily off the rails and the show veers wonderfully between pleasing the core cult and hooking a general audience. It’s a blast and the lads behind the show have now altered many of the gags and toyed with the staging, so even if you caught it during its first run, you’ll get a fresh frisson or two from this version…

In the seemingly inexhaustible territory of modern vampire literature, it can be refreshing to uncover those restorative works of fiction that hark back to the cold-blooded, merciless and inhuman traditional bloodsuckers that set the precedent. Bram Stoker epitomized this vein of literature in 1897 with DRACULA, forever changing the world of horror with its since oft-depicted antagonist. The novel and the Count have inspired a vast number of other works that have become somewhat detached from the source, but Royce Prouty’s debut novel STOKER’S MANUSCRIPT (Penguin) pays careful homage to Stoker’s original masterpiece.

Though this writer lives and works in the Toronto area, I admittedly am ignorant of the legacy of Skull Man aka Greg Sommer. We’ve run in the same circles, I’ve seen the man himself at the odd party, but I never once considered who, or what, he was.

Premiering as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s “provocative, sexy… possibly dangerous” Vanguard section, Zack Parker’s PROXY introduces itself as a thriller that means to challenge both its audience and “traditional cinematic form.” It’s bloody baby-featuring festival poster certainly makes an impression in that direction.